Memories Quotes - Page 25

• Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Complaining, Good Memories, Judgment

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• When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

  Will Rogers

  Done, Good Things, Memoir

  Will Rogers (1982). “More letters of a self-made diplomat”, Oklahoma State University Press

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• I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

  David Lee Roth

  Real, Organization, Details

  "Van Halen's David Lee Roth: 'I've always been a show-off' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Mick Brown, www.theguardian.com. 1984.

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• We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Belief, Relative Truth, Our Memories

  "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

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• Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Remembrance, Calendars, Forgotten

  "Yom HaShoah: A Call to Remember From the Depths of Our Jewish Soul" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

  Jerry Saltz

  Lying, Thinking, Knowing

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• Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Flower, Book

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• Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Strong, Thinking, Ideas

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• The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

  Eric Schmidt

  World, Very Good, Computing

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• People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

  Eric Schmidt

  People, Intuition, Computer

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• 'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.

  Ricky Schroder

  Spoons, Silver, Great Memories

  "Rick Schroder Talks Life After ‘Silver Spoons,’ Marriage & Erin Gray’s ‘Cruel’ On-Set Yoga Read more at http://www.accessonline.com/articles/rick-schroder-talks-life-after-silver-spoons-marriage-erin-grays-cruel-on-set-yoga-104813/#sgJL5qxwK80kf7Dg.99". www.accessonline.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

  Clara Schumann

  Play, Agony, Giving

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• God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Children, Sibling, Thinking

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• When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Running, Fall, Grandmother

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• Liars need to have good memories.

  Algernon Sidney

  Liars, Needs, Good Memories

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• A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

  Jane Smiley

  Creativity, Ideas, Voice

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.11, Anchor

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• Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

  Jane Smiley

  Writing, People, Giving

  "Fictionaut Five: Jane Smiley" by Meg Pokrass, fictionaut.com. December 29, 2010.

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• After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

  Arthur Smith

  Atmosphere, Phrases, Vivid

  "Arthur Smith" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2002.

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• Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

  George A. Smith

  Passion, Pride, Past

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• My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

  Robert Smith

  Beach, Children, Sitting

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Susan Compo, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

  Robert Smithson

  Past, Reality, Museums

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Son, Two, Lovely

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• The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Christian, Soul, Suffering

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.26, UPNE

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• I've a grand memory for forgetting.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Forget

  'Kidnapped' (1886) ch. 18

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